nothing too surprising….doesn’t really change much – someone will have to buy a van lol!
so onto something much more interesting ….I had the BEST weekend! Was sooo good to kick back with my friends and relax and shop and laugh and shop and chat and shop! A bit sad that I missed Linda and Virginia though. A few of us went out for dinner afterwoods and were thoroughly spoilt…a funny cab ride back the car capped of an awesome evening!
The top50 stand went really well – lots of interest and I was surprisingly relaxed once we got going – yes talking is something I’m usually pretty good at but talking to strangers is a bit harder! Anyway it was good and Judith did a great job especially in directing traffic and bringing other stand holders over to the stand.

The next stage of the top50 additions is almost ready so stay tunned – will be awesome and more is coming – so many ideas rolling around in my head.

Hosting people have come up with a plan for top50 to cope better with the traffic it is getting so we will be moving forward with that shortly. Onwards and upwards I say!

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After a somewhat rocky start (due to not being able to stop coughing etc for a little while) had a fabulous time today Scrappin with Trish. I got a whole TWO Layouts done – and both are really simple ones at that but I had a great time just sitting queitly and scrappin (cause I don’t talk much)……….oh ok so I might have talked a little bit!

Was great to meet Trish and to catch up with lots of old friends…also great to meet Sally from Scrapshop

I havne’t been finding as much time to scrap as I would like…thankfully I have some good friends who encourage me to take a night off from work and play…it’s good for the soul.

I actually signed up for a class at Big Picture Scrapbooking which has been fun too. We had an online chat and luckily the timing was perfect as while all the US ladies were putting their kids to bed I had two at daycare and one napping and was enjoying the gorgeous sunshine coming through my scraproom door! We were chatting – amongst other things – about how much we loved getting parcels of scrapping goodies…and so ….tonight I did this…good for the soul – even if it is downright silly!

and on that note it is downright silly to still be up right now as kids don’t yet understand the term ‘sleep in’ so i had best be off.

Saw surgeon – had even told the kids it would be a long wait…walk in empty waiting room in and out in 20minutes!

verdict…tricky, very tricky. Basically there is an extra ‘flap’ of skin that needs to be removed but just doing so without due care there would be a good chance of cutting off the circulation to other areas…nasty very nasty. Will be waiting a long time before next op..how long? no idea! Paddy says that by the time it has grown enough to be ready to op then Owen will WANT to have it done (as in by then he will know it is ‘different’) so I guess one less thing I have to try to explain …for now. Not looking forward to the discussion the day he realises his IS ‘different’ but deal with it when it comes….the good news is that Paddy is still confident of a ‘good result’ in the long term.

other news – business cards are ready for printers woohoo DebF is a bloody marvel!
and I lashed out and ordered new bras (from the states cause I am size bloody huge) so they should be hear by xmas…by which time Corey will be well and truely weaned too! now must stop spending up!

ok most people I know would know that Owen was born with a severe case of hypospaidies (which is basically a malformation of the penis – it means the hole isn’t at the end but on the underside – his was almost at the base of his penis). Owen had his first op a week b4 he turned one followed by emergency surgery in the early hours of the morning due to complications….he then had another one about 6 months later and then a further one another 6 months or so again. We have always known that he would need more down the track to make it look ‘normal’ so I don’t know why suddenly it would seem a problem! But you see with Owen’s speech and language delays I’ve never really had to explain it to him. Today he is going to see the surgeon and I told him the dr wants to look at his penis and explained that he might need to have another operation on it but he doesn’t understand why – he tells me it works that it isn’t broken….how to explain to a nearly 5yr old that his penis doesn’t look ‘normal’ when he hasn’t worked that out for himself yet?! So I guess we wait and see – chances are that Paddy (surgeon) will say see you in another year…but then he has in the past said ‘how about tuesday?’ (in which case I would have to say please NO wait til next month)!….wait and see…wait and see…

in the mean time I leave you with one last observation….

Three boys under 5yrs old are LOUD!…..wonder if i can pick up some earplugs

it reminds me that while sometimes it is one hell of a ride….i really don’t want to stop it and I don’t want to get off!

Been looking through my albums a bit as I put them in order and wow it’s nice to be reminded that life really is pretty darn good.

so next time you want to hide from your children (or worse) think back to that unasked for cuddle…think about those skinny arms wrapped around your neck and how good it felt……….and smile…cause really life is good and kids are worth every single one of those ‘stop the world’ moments………